How does water shape political life? From Indigenous water rights in Oklahoma to filtration technologies in Denmark and Mexico, and the contested waterways of Brazil, this public event gathers researchers from three continents to discuss water as a site of power and infrastructure.

Moderator/Host:  

Derek Pardue (Aarhus University, co-founder of CEBRAGA)

Speakers: 

Daniel Mains: Professor, University of Oklahoma, US - author of Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life: Water, Politics, and Infrastructure in Urban Oklahoma 

Ciara Kierens: Professor, Aarhus University, leader of the FILTERSCAPE project on water politics, health and technology in Denmark and Mexico 

Léa Lebeaupin-Salamon: Post-doctoral Researcher, UC Louvain, Belgium), active research on water politics in Brazil

Contact person: Derek Pardue

Event co-sponsors: CEBRAGA (Center for Brazilian and Global Affairs), Departments of Global Studies and Anthropology, and the  AU - Water Cluster